Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

1) Donated by Mr Harold Parkinson in 1983.2) Donated by Mr Harold Parkinson in September 1989.3-7) Presented by his son Professor Richard B. Parkinson in December 2013.

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Scope and content

1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).5) Models, plaster and resin molds and casts for plaque depicting scene from lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (ca. 1979) - the plaque is being sold in the British Museum shop since late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued ca. 2010).6) Model, plaster and resin molds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).7) Models, plaster and resin molds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).

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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

2) Photocopies of KV 55 in the possession of Dr C. N. Reeves.

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4) Complete, final set in the possession of Dr. D. Jones.

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Publication note

1) M.A. Littauer and J.H. Crouwel, <i>Chariots and Related Equipment from the Tomb of Tutʿankhamūn</i> (Oxford, 1985), pl. i; C.N. Reeves, <i>Valley of the Kings: The decline of a royal necropolis</i> (London and New York, 1990), pl. iv; A. Wiese, 'Tutankhamun - Just a Conventional "Tomb Treasure" of the 18th Dynasty? On the Tomb Equipment of Royal and Non-royal Personages in the Valley of the Kings', in A. Wiese and A. Brodbeck (eds.), <i>Tutankhamun - The Golden Beyond: Tomb Treasures from the Valley of the Kings</i> (Basel, 2004), figs. 1, 15; W.M. Weiss, <i>Tutanchamun. Sein Grab und die Schätze</i> (Bayreuth, 2008), fig. on 55 [upper].

2) KV 46: A. Wiese, 'Tutankhamun - Just a Conventional "Tomb Treasure" of the 18th Dynasty? On the Tomb Equipment of Royal and Non-royal Personages in the Valley of the Kings', in A. Wiese and A. Brodbeck (eds.), <i>Tutankhamun - The Golden Beyond: Tomb Treasures from the Valley of the Kings</i> (Basel, 2004), fig. 76.